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(No Model.)

J. L. FERGUSON.

TIGKBT CASE.

Patented June 5, 1883. .Z

N. FETERS. Phuhrlmgnphlf. Wah'nlhn. D- Q NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES L. FERGUSON, OF COLUMBIA CITY, INDIAXA.

'TI CKET-CAS'E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,925, dated June 5,

Application filed February 19. 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, J Tunas L. FERGUSON, of Columbia City, in the county of Vhitley and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Cases and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved ticket-case with part of the inner and outer casing broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, and Figs. 3, 4, and are detail views of slight modifications in the ejector.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figlues.

My invention has relation to ticket-cases; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a case in which the ticket-receptacle is suspended in such a manner that by being pushed in the case one ticket will be pushed out at the time, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the outside casing, which may be constructed to hold one or more ticket-receptacles, as desired. The front of this casing has a rectangular aperture, B, through which projeets part of the ticket-receptacle O, which is suspended in the upper part of the casing by a rod, D, passing through the sides of the receptacle, near the top of the same, at a point nearer toward the front than toward the rear, so that'the lower part of the receptacle, which swings freely in and out in the aperture in the casing, will project fart-her out than the top.

The front of the receptacle is open and provided with a sliding cover, E, which reaches within the thickness of one ticket to the bottom of the same, leaving a slot, F, through which one ticket may be ejected at the time from within, while a vertical slot, G, which may be provided with glass, admits a view of the tickets contained in the receptacle, and the portion H, cut out of the front, which preferably is made of sheet metal, may be bent to form a knob or eye for pushing the sliding front or cover upward for thepnrposc of refilling the receptacle.

In the rear portion of the bottom I of the receptacle is a longitudinal slot, J through which the shank K of the ejector L projects. This ejector is hinged at the rear end of its shank to the rear wall of the casing, and is provided with a cross-head, M, upon its forward upwardly-bent end, said cross-head being of a thickness not exceeding the thickness of a ticket.

In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 of the drawings are shown some slight modifications in the making of the ejector, Fig. 3 showing the ejector made of a piece of wire inserted into the eye of the hinge N, whereupon both ends are bent forward to form the shank, and bent outward at their outer ends, forming the cross-head. Fig. 4 shows the eject-or made of a bar of fiat metal, having a T-head of the same metal at each end, one forming the pintle in the hinge, and the other forming the cross-head; and Fig. 5 shows a piece of wire having a plate fastened upon one end, forming the cross-head, while its other end forms an eye for the insertion into the hinge. The lower rear corner of the receptacle forms a recess, 0, large enough to accommodate the cross-head of the ejector, so that when one ticket has been pushed out and the receptacle swings out, the cross-head will slide into the recess, allowing another ticket to fall down, resting upon the bottom of the receptacle, the cross-head bearing against its inner edge, ready to push it out when the receptacle is swung into the casing. In this manner it will be seen that the tickets may very easily be withdrawn by simply pushing the receptacle in, when a poltion of the ticket will protrude through the slot large enough to be easily taken hold of and withdrawn, when the receptacle will swing out by its own gravity,

and be ready to push another ticket out.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. In a ticket-case, the combination of the swinging ticket-receptacle having recess 0,

ticket at a time, with the ejector hinged to the rear portion of the casing, and having a cross head upon its free end, as and for the purpose shown and set forth. I

2. The combination, in a ticket-case, of the swinging receptacle (7, suspended in the case at the top, near the upper forward corner, and

having slot F at its lower forward corner, lon

gitudinal slot J at the rear part of the bottom,

and recess 0 at its rear lower corner, with the ejector L, hinged at the rear part of the casing, and having the cross-head M upon the upward bent end of the shank K, projecting through slot J, as and for the purpose shown and set forth. v

3. The combination, in a ticket-case, of swinging receptacle (3, having transverse slot F, longitudinal slot J, and recess 0, and suspended at its top, near its upper forward cor ner, with the ejector L, consisting of a piece of wire inserted through hinge N, bent forward, forming shank K, bent upward, and having its outer ends bent at right angles, forming cross-head M, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

eess O, and ejector L, hinged to the rear wall of the casing at N, and having cross-head M, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my, own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES L. FERGUSON.

'Witnesses:

\VRIGHT LANCASTER, J osEPH R. HARRISOX. 

